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  Music Video: Roger Mahony Hymn (Aka Help Us Jesus) Featured Today up Top at City of Angels Network

By Kay Ebeling
City of Angels
June 18, 2008

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[with link to the music video]

Time for a mid-week music break from reading all these documents. Click the video box above the headline to watch the music video of a song written by an LA musician after seeing the movie Deliver Us From Evil.

The song is “Roger Mahony Hymn (aka Help Us Jesus)” and the band is The Wrynkles.

“We are musicians from the seventies now in our fifties," said, Ron Frederick, band leader and vocalist, "and we spell the band’s name that way instead of other people making jokes about old men playing music."

What inspired the song? “About six months ago, I was going to write a sarcastic song about Jerry Falwell, around the time he died. I was sitting at work and coincidentally that day Deliver Us From Evil came in the mail from NetFlix.

“Suddenly I had to write that song.”

The rest of the band are Dave Hall the bass player, Richard Paine on drums, and Fred Grabert on guitar.

You can get to the song on YouTube by copy and pasting this in the search box at YouTube:

Roger Mahony Hymn (aka Help Us Jesus)

Then at the right click on more information to read the lyrics a sampling of which is here:

(words and music by Ron Frederick, c2008)

The bells ring for you in churches untrue and unfaithful
With children abused, and priests stand accused of love hateful
What's really much worse is you put the church first, holy deception
Not one parent heard even one single word of protection

We know you never cared, you never cared for those children
We know you never cared, your lies and betrayals so cruel


Mr. Frederick says he's not a crime victim himself. "I wasn't molested, but I know about it."

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Watch the video all this week up top here at City of Angels Network.

 
 

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